Editorial: If the ceasefire holds, Donald Trump’s ill-starred foray into the Middle East will have left the Iranian regime stronger than it was before the conflict
  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
    572·
    2 months ago

    Netanyahu is not a moron, making Iran weaker wasn’t his goal. Forever war was, to have a foil to play for domestic political purposes.

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
      39·
      2 months ago

      Not to mention Gaza and the West Bank has been out of the news cycle. The colonists have been doing some heinous shit since the war happened.

    • tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz
      9·
      2 months ago

      Yep, but his biggest blunder was to trust Trump to help him out all the way. What makes Netanyahu a moron in my books is that now after a few years Iran will be stronger and led by military. It will hurt Israel in the long term.

    • tacoplease@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 month ago

      It’s his “keeping himself out of jail” plan. Just like with Thwump. The only way not to go to jail is to stay President.

    • stringere@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      1 month ago

      Exactly what he did with Hamas all these years.

      The villain loves creating his own enemies to keep his political career going.

    • krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish
      35·
      2 months ago

      The whole point of the war was to stop oil sales in chinese yuan. It’s as simple as that.

      Gold has been surging and that was because they country was trading gold for yuan to buy oil. Now they can’t do that. Oil is traded in USD again.